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There is, in fact, none of the pathos of the aging star about Mae, none of the desperate anxiety of the character played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. Dressed in a white pants suit, her lips painted a bright, girlish peach, she is jollity itself. The famous laugh, which percolates leisurely to the throat, is young and vital still. Mae West is her own best invention, and no one believes in it or enjoys it more than she herself. "All I look for is harmony," she says. "If I argue, I get nasty, so I don't have...
James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891. The way the Springfield College women's basketball team played last night in the IAB, pasting Harvard 69-55, they looked as if they'd been right out there practicing with Jamie since that first historic game played between two peach baskets...
...Littlerock, Calif, (pop. 1,500), a farm community northeast of Los Angeles, have a choice of potential disasters. Would they rather risk being drowned, or drying up and blowing away? State officials want to drain the 521 million-gal, reservoir behind the nearby Littlerock Dam, whose water irrigates the peach and pear groves and melon fields that give the town what little prosperity it has. But the 53-year-old dam sits virtually atop the San Andreas Fault. Although the structure has survived severe tremors in the past, seismologists say it is located where the next big quake is most...
...emerge. When Nelly (the crazy blonde) and Martin (the former perfume magnate) are alone on the island, he calls her up on the phone that connects two straw huts to invite her to dinner and she insists that she is really much, much too busy. She is eating a peach and thumbing absentmindedly through an old magazine. When we discover that Martin is not just a scraggly bearded recluse but a runaway on whom a major corporation is keeping tabs, that the menagerie of bottles and papers on his desk are really essences and litmus for scent-creation, it adds...
Scarce Apricots. Moreover, backers have not yet figured out how to manufacture the drug legally in some states-even if there were enough demand to make production profitable-without crossing a state line. Indiana, for instance, has few apricot trees. But the state has plenty of peach trees, so proponents are giving some thought to producing the drug from peach pits...